The Irish standard., 1887-06-11
CATHOLIC NEWS.
Religious Notes .

RELIGIOUS Notes.
One-fourth Of the inhabitants of Aus
Jralia are Catholics.
Cardinal Manning is suffering from
inflamed eyes. 5.
In two years from now the See of
Baltimore will be two hundred years
old.
Work has been commenced on the
new German Catholic church and
school at La Crosse.
President Grevy has conferred on
Cardinal Di Rende the Grand Cross of
the Legion of Honor.
The Catholic University Of Leuvain.
Belgium, is four hundred years old. 1t
was founded by Pope Martin V.
The good people of West Bend, Palo
Alto county, Iowa, have raised a sum
sufficient to build handsome Catholic
church.
Ten Professionals have been received
into the Church already this year by
Father Doyle, of St. Edwards church,
Cincinnati.
For the first time in several years the
Sacrament of Confirmation was admin
istered on Sunday, May 8, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
The news is confirmed that Mon
signor Stumpff, coadjutor bishop of
Strasburg, will be nominated Prince
Bishop of Breslau.
The death is announced of Baine p.
Flanagan. of Falkirk, the first Catho-
lie that has occupied the position of
magistrate in Scottish burg since the
so-called Reformation.
A church is about to be built in Rome
to commemorate the centenary of St.
Louis Gonzaga, and an appeal is made
to all the youth of the Catholic world in
aid of it's erection.
Four thousand eight hundred dollars
have already been collected by Arch
bishop Elder, Cincinnati, to buy the
claims of the late Archbishop Purcell's
creditors OF twenty-five cents on the
dollar.
A fine communion rail, the work of
one of the Franciscan Brothers, has
been placed III the Church of the Sacred
Heart, Indianapolis, Ind. 1t is under
stood that new main altar will shortly
be put in this church.
Miss Miriam Armstrong, daughter of
Rev. J. G.. Armstrong, late of the Mon
umental Episcopal Church, of Atlanta,
Ca, has been received into the Catholic
Church by Kew. Father Kelly, brother
Of Hon. A. NJ. Kelly.
The death is announced of the dis
tinguished Catholic Journalist, Don
Giacomo Margotti, editor of the ''Unita
Cattolica." The paper will continue to
be conducted en- the same lines by his
brother, Commentators Stefano Mar
gotti.
The Oblates of Mary, in Canada, hav-
ing civilized the Kippewa county. are
now going to open it up to the COM
MERGE of the world. They are building
a railroad from the termination of the
Temiscamingue railroad to Kippewa
Lake.
Rt, Rev. Bishop Junger, of Portland,
is visiting Seattle and points on Puget
Sound. His Lordship goes to Seattle
to arrange for the building of another
church in that city. Ground has re-
Gently been purchased in Tacoma also
for new hospital and Sisters
school.
Monsignor Rosi, cleric di Camera Of
his Holiness, presented to the Holy
Father the Offering Of the girls in the
educational institution of the Vista
ton in Turin, on the occasion Of his
sacerdotal jubilee. This was accom-
panied by an album containing the ad-
dresses of each of these pupils.
The celebration Of the 45sth anniver-
sary of the delivery of Orleans by Joan
of Arc was inaugurated on Saturday,
May 8, by the Bishop of Orleans, who
held aloft the standard Of La Pucelle.
which he had received from the hands
of the Mayor, while he blessed the
kneeling and enthusiastic population.
The civil law of Italy Expresses the
consciences of Catholics in a variety OF
ways. The latest development of this
legalized tyranny is the issue of a circu-
lar by the Director of Public Schools,
compelling the attendance of the chill
dren on holidays Of obligation under
pain of severe punishment, so as to pre-
vent them from assisting at Mass.
M. Gounod has presented to Leo
Kill, as an act of flial homage to his
Holiness, new cantata which he has
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